6/30/02 - well well it seems like i havent written forever.. i feel like writing a lot so i'm not gonna worry too much about typos and the like... and screw grammer :-p... so i had one of the greatest moments in my basketball career the other night... after watching the nba draft... well let me take an aside at this point... so watching the draft was kinda interesting.. if just for all the new names u get to hear... i mean seriously... 10 years ago, people pretty much almost all had "regular" names... but nowadays, i mean come on, sometimes it seems like people are just tryign to make up names from choosing 7 letters out of the scrabble bag... now i have an excuse for mine, cuz i'm foreign... but now it seems like everyone has a super unique name... i dunno if it's just another way of forming an identity.. i dunno... so newayz after the draft played soem basketball, where i actually nutmegged someone, stepped around him and then scored... it was beautiful... so i dunno i think that either i've somehow gotten a little better after graduating hehe... but i've deiced that playing basketball is a really really good thing to do...i really should do it more often... although i dunno if i'd ever like playing wit people i really didnt know..i prefer there always bee a messing around element to playing sports for fun... although winning is good too... worked t/w/t this week... same old...i'm really getting tired of the job... i need to find something else soon... watched a movie called clock watchers today... which had some scenes which really describe how i'm feeling about work right now... just going through the motions... the movie was pretty good... it's gt toni collette, the mom from 6th sense, i've found her really likable in movies... AND the movie had parker posey... now i never saw her when she was on mtvv, but i've seen a couple movies with her... and she's probably one of my favorite actresses to watch, she's attractive AND seems to have a screen personality that i like hehe... the movie was pretty good... doesn't come close to office space, but i'd recommend it if your workign in an office... thursday got to play soccer... man i love soccer hehe... our team lost, but i've deiced it was cuz went the open goal route :-p... but was fun... i hope to make it a weekly occurence... and whoever said soccer was noncontact 9some lame jr high school teacher i think) is wrong... had a collision wiht two people, they ended up with a chipped tooth and a bloody hole in the arm... what was great that pretty much play continued as usual about 5 minutes later hehe... even had some random guy who was walking buy start to play so that was cool... saw minority report... not too bad... reminded me of the fugitive kinda... the future looks kinda cool hehe... i thought it was a lot better than spielburg's last effort wtih AI (shorter at least hehe)... let's see... oh yeah finally got a peer to peer file sharing program set up at home... its nice not being blocked by the school.. so i've started downloading all the movies i know i'll probalby never go pay to syee... it's been hit and miss so far... Bad Company sucked unfortunately... for some reason chris rock doesnt fair so well on screen, well actually i dd like him in dogma though... the rookie i recomment, kinda sappy and u know things are gonna go well... BUT it's nice to watch those movies every once in awhile... listenign to under the table and dreaming right now while writing this... damn i like music, especially this album... oh and the last movie i've watched in teh comp was sum of all fears... not too bad... u gotta suspend reality for a couple scenes, but i think i am used to a lot slower pace cuz im' used to reading clancy's books... where he builds up for the first 600 pages and THEN things start happening and comiong togetehr hehe... ahh one good thing (i guess) about commuting to irvine for work, is that in the morning i get to listen to kevin and bean... i really like the kroq morning show :)... makes me laugh :)... things are so so at home... arguing over some little things... but heopefully things will work out... much discussion over the future, which i'm not too foud of talkling about, but i guess i'm at a point in my life where i have to... i really need to win the lottery, so ican stay a student forever.... friday was a day of super long driving.... well maybe not too much driving, but it was more than i had in awhile... woke up in the morning in irvine (thanks mario & abel for the couch)... drove out to fullerton for a a visit, and that went good i think... at least our family friend seemed better than the last time i saw her... then drove home, got my eyes checked out... now its funny every time i go to the eye doctor there's some new test/machine they have for me to look at... i really don't like the glaucoma one... that puff of air into the eyes...ewww.. then i got ready and drove down with my friend to san diego... man i really wish more of you had come down on friday... saw jason mraz at one of hsi supposed last shows down there... i don't know how i can express the feeling i got for the 2 hours we were there... i swear i had a constant grin on my face from watchign/hearing/listening to him & hsi frieds who drummed, bass (not guitar), and freestyled... it was an incredible show... i've never seen someone who interacts with the audience better... and of cousrse the music/songs/lyrics were great... a really happpy place... he said he was playing agina saturday, and i was really tempted to go... i really can't recommend him enough... apparantly someone told me he's moving up so LA, so maybe he'll be putting on lotsa shows up here... but really really really really great show... BUT we left early cuz i promised my sis to go to her end of the year party in westwood... that drive seemed like ti took forver, even though i did it in less than 2 hours i think... her party was much fun... lotta people at least hehe... and peopel i even knew so that was nice... but man did people make a mess... its a good thign they were moving out this weekend... hahah i don't tihnk ne of the neighbors would wanna have them aroudn after that night haha... but going to hers has got me aching to throw one of my own... i mean like a 200+ party... drop 5 bills (so much for grad money haha)... but hopefully soon... speaking of parties... got good and inebriated last ngiht... much fun at will's pre-worldcup final party bash thingie... but i did somehow mangage to stay awake for most of the game... although the morning after was hilarious... many people (myself included) making trips to a sink or toilet in bodily protest of alcohol hehe... weirdest thing though was that my allergies didnt act up at all... and they usually do whne i spend extended periosds of time in a cat's house... todyay has been a great day of doing absolutely nothign except reading adn watching stuff... had a very eclectic mix of foods for lunch and a delicious pb&j dinner... hmm i had a lot on my mind yesteday, but it seems to be all buried away now hehe... one thing though.. i really do miss irivne, and to all those who claim they hate it while living there... i doubt u'd feel the same when you're gone... i think a lot of peopel sya they don't like it cuz it seems to be the cool thing to say... newayz... that's all for now... perhaps will be back later...

6/26/02... 1:29 AM... hmm wonder who's still up... i won't be for long... ugh i doubt i'll be getting up for the other semifinal... ahh well.. there's always just reading it on the web lol... and catchign replays on one of the many sports channels i know have muahahahahha. well made my very first web page today... i tihnk i'm eventually gonna switch over to the "blogger" type thingie... intead fo this... mainly cuz they ARE DELETEING MY POSTS!!!!!... well at least the old ones... this week looss like it's gonna be ridiculously busy.... hpefully we got basketball tomorrow, soccer thursday, sis's party thursday, jason mraz in sd friday, adn saturday is party and then world cup finals... adn then i'll probalby have lots of crap to do sounday... man.. i think i sometimes would just rather nap the day away... so now i'm gonna tell u how lame traffic is... so usually i leav for work at nine adn get to work around ten... but otday, due to my sleepiness i was late in getting up so i left the hosue at 10...a dn got ot work at 10:30... can u freakin believe that? that's ridiculous... hehe maybe if by tha tlogic if i leave at 11, i'll get ther eby 11:15... oh man if only the math universe went along with my mind's wishes and desires... oh yeah so yesterday i found out a friend of mine was on a cruise in Alaska.... man she's lucky i really would liek to go waaay up there... but the most well effed up thing was that one of the first thigns that popped in my head was that it'd be hilarious if i asked jen to bring me back an eskimo... hehehe... oh man i'm going to hell... ok enough t of this... i thikn i need ot higher an editor... good night... sweet dreams... Fare well! hope to hear from you all soon! bon Jour.... err adios.... xsnorex

6/24/02... 7:57 pm... hola hola... ahh had a good weekend :)... and of course extended the feelign out to monday... thanks to all who were invited by the parentals and came saturday, i had much fun... gracias for the cards & gifts (very much appreciated, but i suppose convey that to your parents more than to yourselves lol)... yeah so had a "small" gathering of family friends saturday... much food... MUCH MUCH food, i'll be eating leftover thai food all week hehe... i have finally mastrered our new dishnetwork satellite thingie... now i'm only missingl ike the first 5 minutes of stuff tryign to find and get to it hehe.. had an adventure today... went to the denteist after about a year and a half... now i'm not afraid of the dentist or nethign, but i jsut kept putting off the appointment forever... so i got up (after getting rudely awakened at the early morning hour of 9:30 (haha) by my mom telling me to make all the appointments... so i call teh dentis's office and they say, umm cna u come in todya at 5... i say yes and proceed to start burshign my teeth AND floss real well (somehoe i like to think those last minute efforts compensate for a year of mediocrity haha)... but i was surprised, as was the dentist people, hehe came out wiht a semi-clean bill of health, just need to floss more... although i never will understand how poking soft tissue(gums) with a sharp pointy thing (sharp pointy metal probe) would NOT cause pain/discomfort... maybe i need to go find some super-gums to withstand that though... got a cool new nifty brush... but i don't htink i'm gonna use... i'm just gonna go buy a new nifty spinbrush hahahaha.... busted out some soccer... actually it was 2 on 2 tree ball... i still had fun for all of the 1/2 hour we played... then it was hot, so 7-11, then swimming and then cards at round table. it was a good day. hmm newayz i need to do stuff.. later on...

6/21/02... 11:27 pm... oh yeah one other thign... drank for the first time at home with the parents around... well they were upstairs in their room, but they did see all the empty bottles the next day... not a word either... i thought my mom would be all "blah blah blaH" but i think she's decided to take the ignore route... dad though last night asked if we were gonna drink and i said yeah... and he said "my stuff?" and i said, nope mine hehe... so that was cool.. although i now have a lot of stuff left over... maybe have a nother game watchign party for semi's... everyoen i know is invited hee hee...

6/21/02... 11:10 pm... woah... busy busy busy last few days hehe... thursday night i went to diamond bar hs's graduation for a friend... wow... soo different from what i had last week lol... one thing though is that ALL their speeches just blew... and supposedly they had all 30 of their valedictorians (now does that make sense in the first place?) write a speech and they chose the best one... well it wasnt that impressive lol... but the ceremony was short... high point of the whole thing was that we had to park far away so they were shuttling us back in forth between the stadium and the lot... but we got to ride on real school buses... hehe naturally me and my friends went straight to the back of the bus hahah.. just like old times... then was the night of world cup action... went to the store and stocked up on beer, soda, chips... and then watched with friends... i had a lot of fun and i got nicely inebriated... it was bad that both teams i was goin for lost but i had fun nonetheless... what was funny was everyone falling asleep after the first match, and wakign up just in time for the 2nd hehe... thanks to all who came for being kool, clean up was a breeze this mornign... and now for the exciting part... Carl came at 9 in the mornign today and gave me my cable modem... 19.95 a month it's freakign incredible deal... well the deal only lasts for 6 months... but still i'm sooo liking being back on line with having to deal with dial up... i'd give up television for access speeds like im' getting... unfortunatelly i don't think i'll be able to run an ftp site.. unless only for music.... messed aroudn with uploading and stuff and seems i'm capped like at 12kbps... LAME... ahh well i can atleast download superfast (yeah!)... did sooo much cleanign today...after a good 6 hour nap that is... i really can't believe all the crap i have in myroom... today was like reliving my hs and first year of college years... i just kept oopenign drawers and boxes (which i had orginally thrown stuff in to look and organize later, like 4 years ago lol)... lots of stuff i can't bring mysefl to throw away but i don't think i'll ever use ne of it either... so one thing i've been doing recenlty is having thses really weird well they're a combination of daydreams and accelerated flashbacks... well maybe not flashbcks, but it's like i'm remembering somethign that hasn't happened... like i'll just superquickly dream up some sort of scenario that could have happened, or could happen... i dunno how ot explain it.. but it's really weird, i dunno if it's just that i'm regretting not have done stuff or if i'm just super unsure of what the hell i'm gonna do now... who knows.. but some of them are really making me think to much... and thinking too much blows... ahh well... more sorting through crap... have a good night everybody

6/19/02... 11:30 pm... so i've been watching october sky tonight while unpacking stuff... what's struck me most is the father, homer's dad... people can criticize people like him in real life as not having open mind to new things, but he is a genuinely good man... there's this scene where he stops this stepdad from beating his son... man if there were more people like him in the world... ahh well.. back to laundry and more unpacking...

6/19/02... 9:20 pm... my prayers from years ago have finally been answered, i came home from work/basketball last night and had dinner then proceeded to hang around upstairs... then whne my dad got back he said.. hey come look at this.. .and lo and behold we now have the DISH NETWORK... ohh man soo mnay channels... dindt get a chance to watch last ngiht... but man this evenign was great so far... sooo many channels.... i just gotta figure out how to set up a chatting only computer downstairs hahahah :-p...hmmm that would be a great idea... i just stlil gotta get the cable modem first :-p... oh yeah if neone reads this, you're invited to my house tomorrow night to watch the soccer games :)... should be good stuff... oh man i get to go to a highschool graduation tomorrow, hehe (just got a call lol)... i havent been to one since my sister's... although... i can't remember if i even went to her's... weird huh? so i worked most of hte day todya... oh man i played some basketball last night... and u know what...i really wasnt the worst out there... i'd see in the top half even ahahhaah... but yeah i decided to remind myself how crappy rush hour traffic is tdoay.. man it blew coming home... and my brilliant side street shortcut, wasn't so brilliant or short.. ahh well as long as i got music i'm fine heh... ok time to do some more unpacking and the like... catch u laters...

6/17/02... 11:05 PM... first off being on a regular modem is MIND NUMBINGLY UNBEARABLE at times.... luckily i can go unpack inbetween webpage clicks i suppose... oh man i got soo much going through my head sometiems adn i wanna write about it, but dont know when i will be able too... let's see... sorta depressing stuff first off... so i went to visit a family friend in the hospital today... i have never felt so, damn i can't figure out the word i want... maybe a form of helplessness? i dunno but it felt a version of what i guess one may call despair.... i mean i saw her lying there, and i have NO way of helping her out... i mean all i could do was just kinda tell her how my week of finals and graduation went... and you can't even give a hug to reassure, with all the tubes and stuff... ugh... just a really not happy experience... but i'm gonna go again problay thursday... we'll see... now on to different things... i'm gonna go random so bear with this... first of all a couple good things about being at home... the first would be that i'm actually using SOFT toilet paper... it's an experience that i'll get to have everyday woo hoo... i mean come on.. that crap in av... eww hehe... let's just say it's not charmin (don't squeeze the charmin! u know i bet there's a few of you that i know are gonna have no idea what that phrase means, they haven't had commercials like that in awhile... it's incredilbe that how you can "date" yourself with the popular media/culture u remember...) another thing is man a fridge full of food to myself lol... it's nice... bad thing so far... i can't believe i'm on a 28.8 modem... it's soooo not good... i really am gonna get a cable modem, hopefully by friday :)... hmm so i'll work backwards i guess... today just used my supposed muscles and helped the old roommate move out of our old room... man i'm gonna miss that room & the year spent in it... i think it may have the best out of all 5 years... well maybe... last night started unpacking eww... first thing i did was throw all my clothes on my sisters bed... then set up the computer... hten proceeded to try to fidn drivers for an old modem... finally got reconnected... i think i was suffereing from bing online withdraals...i did miss my own computer though... although i'll be turning it off now at night b4 i go to bed... i'm gonna miss the gentle fan/hard drive noises though... well maybe i'll leave it on when i get cable modem lol... while doing all that i did catch the usa- mexico game... GREAT game.. al though them jugadores mexicanos played pretty dirty... there were some crazy fouls... and usa got nailed wtih the lamest reasons for yellow i've ever seen haha.... sunday evening was watchign the lion king... at the pantages theater... now i really wasn't too keen on thes, but my mom/dad kidna wanted to see it... so we went... now i actually wanst too impressed with the singing and songs and dancing...wwell myabe some of the dancing... BUT... what i was completely blown away with was teh set design and costumes... man it was incredible watchign so many different parts of the stage move so smoothly to fit the scene... they had thsi one spiraling staircase kinda coming up and down out of hte stage it was incredible... the other thgin was all the animal limb extensions on all the costumes.... there was this one cougar all alone... and he'd just wak across the stage.. hsi feet being the hind legs...and then he'd have this appendage that was like th rest of the cougar and his arms moved the front limbs... and man i twas soo freaking fluid.. really beautiful to watch... they also had these dancers in midair on strings... that was really nice to watch too... but mainly i really like the set desing/machinery... hehe... daytime sunday consisted of graduation for my sister (YEAH TUILIKA) and lunch at Cheesecake Factory (YEAH STOMACH)... ucla's grad was a lot differnt for rivine's...i thought our's rocked a lot better... but her's did have FREE oj & coffee during it hehe... LA area was soooo busy with the graduation and fathersday... YEAH BAPI (dad)!... lunch with her roommates too :)... and now back to saturday... oh yeah one more thing... man parkign in westwood blows hehe... so saturday night i crashed with a friend closer to LA, so i wouldnt have to wake up so early (thanks le`a)... so i guess the night ended around 5... i really wasn't tired cuz i took some good powernaps here and there all day lol... saturday night i really felt like going out with a bang (err inebriation wise) but ended up help mario's new roommate move stuff in and me pack up my car with boxes and boxes... aorund 11 pm i had to take down my computer... i was soo sad :(... but then i just went online on mario's computer :-p... lunch at claim jumpers with the family... i think my graduation timing was perfect, cuz the restaurants were all not so crowded around 3... now the big moment... which was kinda anticlimaactic for me... but yeah so the ceremony stared at one... we got there early and lined up wiht friends... whice was kool u could be with whoever u wanted in your school... but it was HOT... and wearing a shirt/tie/pants & black robe wasn't helping... they wnet through introductions and then read out everyone's names after the guest speaker... i didnt like the guy too much, some venture capitalist... i dunno it seemed he was really "forcing" his jokes he was tyring to stick in... the cermeomny had it's beach balls and tortillas being thrown aroudn... i was getting hungry then i think if a tortialll ahd come ot me i might have started eating it :-p... but yes i did graduate... turned the tassel from teh wrong side to the right... i dunno though i really didnt feel anything... no rush of excitement, no sense of real relief... maybe cuz i know that there's sooo much more to be experienced in life? and the fact that i really like school and don't think i'll like leavintg it lol... ahh i'm such a nerd (never ending radical dude :-P) but yeah i dunno i guess i just didnt get the "movie/tv" feeling that we've been brought up watching.... newayz let's jump back another day... fri night... err mix of nap, beer sipping, packing, im-ing, and just hanging around... oh yeah sat night... same hting... got to hang aorudn with some but i felt bad cuz i really couldnt play with everyboyd..... if i only had tha ttime stopping device or a time machine to go back and do thing swihc each gruop... too bad i just couldnt force veveryone i wanted to see to be in one beig room with me all at once lol... and man my typing is going to shit... but i'm gonna blame the fact that he keyboard is in my lap :-p... yeah so friday didnt go much at night... day time was another story.... woke up and blew off work ahahah :p, i'm always amazed i did that lol... each time i do that hahah... neawayz ended up doign nothign til 3.. and then the fun began... super tight soccer game.. .ncie and slippery so my cleats did give an advantage...i had a lot of fun..bu then at 4:30 i had to rush and get ready to go to dinner... which was incredible... CHINA OLIVE by south coast on bristol.. holy cow man it was incredible 8 bux allu can eat chinese food & mongolian bbq... granted the quality of the food wasnt somethign like somethign you'd find in rowland or san pedro (crap i think tha'ts the place... up north a bit... in the valley... lots of asians?) newayz it was more like take out chense food but mmm il ike that stuff too... and what a myriad of people in there.. EVErYBODY seesm to like the all u can eat... food brings people of all classes and races together... but man i stuffed myself... was soooo full i had to just sleep for awhile afterwards :-p...ok i think this'll do for now.. g'night!

6/17/02... 3:39 AM... it has been a long 3 days... full update sometime tomorrow :-p, but for now... just a reminder list: more doing nothing, soccer, chinese food, nap, pack, nap, graduation, lunch, nap, pack, relax, nap, pack, hollywood, graduation, lunch, nap, lion king, unpack

6/14/02... 1:51 AM... wow... a really uneventful party night... but much needed one... took a nice long nap (thanks lisa & ryan)... then watched some futbol... man i am sincerely amazed by the level of play seen at the world cup... it's freakign incredible how good these guys are... i'd like to challenge them to Goal on NES, i think i could show em a thing or two on there hehe... so i got ZERO packing done today... man tomorrow's gonna be sucky i think... stupid work in the morning :( and then pack pack pack... newayz bed time for me :) good night all, good luck if you got a friday final (all you freshmen, get used to it, u'll have one every qtr with ss core)... wow... only 2 days left of computer online all the time :-( sadness... only 2 days left for a lot of things...

6/13/02... 8:18 PM. done with classes at uci. kinda weird. feeling extremely weird. usually after finals i get this huge burst of happy energy... but this time around doesn't feel the same. guess it might be just everything else going on right now... but it was a very unfun quarter of classes... i wish i woulda had last qtr now... that was an ez one hehe... so let's see... yesterday did some studyign out in the sun in front of 1020... we did thsi before in prior years... i like it a lot... although i tend to just sit and talk rather than study hehe... this time no differetn, well with the exceptoin of takign a nap... man that was a good one... but seriously high point of the eventing at that time was that cuccia came back and we congradulated him on finishing, and then some Theta girl yells out her window for us to be quiet, cuz she wasn't done wiht finals & had to study... first of all it was only like 7:30... THE SUN WAS OUT... second of all... how many times do we have to listen to their freaking clapping and screaming their sorority song/chant things? if i wasn't half asleep and in a very comfortable position i almost wanted to get up and yell back... ahh well hehe... newayz so apparantly i'm now done with my undergraduate career... sure took long enough hehe... today's test was super hard... i dunno i think i somehow lost the ability to cram this year... my usual antics just didnt seem to work as well this quarter... these next few days are gonna be busy... i cant' believe how much crap i gotta pack up... THERE are tons of things i need to get home somehow... but i'll be happy with just getting my comp, the lazyboy & some clothes, like a pair of jeans or something hehe... got free alcohol today... very random stuff from TINA BASU ahahah hehe... i tasted this long island ice tea in a can... and man it was honestly one of the worst things i've ever tasted in my life... but luckily mario liked it (and finished it hehe) i just stuck with a Sapporo she had... man i can still remember that i used to hate the taste of beer lol... people DO change hehe. for being done with finals not really feeling ecstatic though... this week has just been too weird i think... heard more bad news about a friend... so that's weighing on my mind... and part of me really doesn't wanna leave uci... or maybe it's just i'm dreading having to move back home haha... i don't know how my parents and I are gonna get used to it again... let's see... had an unexpected pseudo-day off tuesday though... after the final, old friend came and visited... spent a really long time talking with her.... saw insomnia... not too shabby... not like heart pounding thriller... but i always like watching pacino & williams... williams does bad guy pretty creepily... didnt get too much work done tuesday though... but did get to talk about much that was needed... perhaps too much though... one conversation affected me moreso than i thought and prompted me to try something... which i dunno... just hope it turns out better than the feeling i'm getting about how it's turning out now is... but if not... well that would blow :-/, but i guess sometimes u gotta just accept the outcome and move on... let's see... i'm soooo freaking hungry at the moment... i could eat vegetables and everything hehe... so off to find some nourishment... i have a feeling i may be writing more tonight...

6/13/02... 7:57 AM... just couple reminder words to write about later, Thetas, sleeping, hug, ?, sun reading, sun napping, mistake?, bad news.

6/12/02... 2:13 AM... this is soo sad... i just freaking realized every word i type here means i'm deleting older words at the bottom... man that sux... i so FURIOUS... but luckily i remembered that i was lame and copy and pasted awhile ago... and i just somehow realized i had saved up to what was left on here... man it was close what i'm writign now i think woulda started overlapping.. and then i would have forgetten forever what the hell i did on 4/24 or something hehe... ok ok... bedtime for real... but i guess this means i'm gonna find a new medium soon... :-p

6/12/02... 2:00 AM... oh man i was gonna sleep but i gotta write a bit first.... well first off i just was in the bathroom and instead of reaching for a magazine and getting Stuff or Maxim, i get an Elle? wtf? oh man... it's a scary scary magazine... i'll write in reverse... now... b4 that was falling asleep watching world cup... before that was gettign some bday cake from Andy... b4 that was hanging out upstairs... b4 that was conversing in the parking lot... b4 that was Insomnia... b4 that was conversing in the room... b4 that was lunch #2 at Tacos & Co.... b4 that was conversing in the room... b4 that was lunch at Ray's... b4 that was Undercover Brother... b4 that was final... b4 that was study for final... wow... that's a really horrible grammatical sentence hehe. and somewhere between all that i figured soem stuff out, skipped a final, and had a hug which meant more than most do...

6/11/02... 9:40 AM.. ok gotta leave for a final in 15 minutes, but i dont wanna study nemore... hehe... first off happy birthday to mr. andy schuster, a furious (at times) but all around good guy. 2ndly... continuing luck to all those with finals left... 3rdly... thanks all who came out to olive garden last night... although i didnt get a chance to talk with everyone i think from now on i'm gonna ask for circular seating and put myself in the middle on a swivel chair with a tray in my lap to eat on... that way i can spin and converse with all hehe... weird service last night though... the waitress for some reason was deaf to my particular frequency of voice... :)... hmm acutally i need to find some notes... so this shall be continued later... :)

6/10/02... 1:38 AM... woo hoo USA TIED!!! hehe finally sat down and watched a usa game.. man it was a good one... almsot had Korea beat... the coolest part of the game was freakign watching the Korean fans.... just MASSES of people chanting and doing the same arm movements... now those are FANS... goofed around a lot, but got SOME (a little some) studygin done... i guess i'll be doing stuff tomorrow... LOTS of stuff... i really wanna blow off work... maybe i'll use my magic powers and skip it hehe... newayz i'm off to bed soon... Good Luck to everyone with tests tomorrow, and tuesday, and wednesday, and thursday, AND friday :-p...

6/8/02... holy crap less than a week left at irvine :-/... i have managed to read about 100 pages spread out over 7 hours today... and by reading pages i think i was just able to turn from one page to another... banquet last night was "allright". then just was tired & feeling kinda unsocial... ahh well maybe just needed a night to myself? although i did kinda want to do other things... always another time i hope... what i did do today though, was watch The Royal Tenenbaums... now i can't figure it if it's just one of the most mediocre movies i've ever seen or one of the greatest... weird huh?

6/7/01 7:02 PM... long day at work, but it was nice got taken out to cheesecake on the company... which brings me to my first random thought... what's the proper ettiquette for that kinda thing? i mean i always order conservatively, w/ water... but others man they went all out.. even ordered cheesecakes to go... ahh wells hehhe... so i'm killing some time right now... banquet at 8:30... gotta shower before then... but i guess i'll just write about the orchestra performance last night... mainly just about classical music... CLASSICAL MUSIC IS AWESOME... i dunno it's just incredible to listen to... i'd probalby punch people if they said that they hated it... no other type of music can make you feel emotions like an orchestra can... the first piece i heard last night was this Strings Only piec called Transfigured Night... it was one of the saddest pieces i've ever heard... i mean if was in a depressed mood i probably woulda started tearing... i don't know how to really explain it to someone, but u just get these waves of emotion washing over you when you're listening... i imagined an entire story to go along with the piece in my head... i guess that's kinda why orchestral music is used soo much in movies... it just fits with the scenes sooo well... one other thing i really liked about this piece was that it was cool watchign the concerted movements of everyone... everyone doing the same thing at the same time at certain points... it was just really cool to watch... and before u guys start thinking nething I was completely sober at this time... i think with live orchestra music i get an incredible natural high hehe... no outside substances necessary to appreciate and "feel" the music... the second piece was ok... they had a singer sing with it... the kool thing was that the program had the words, they were in german, but they provided an english trnaslation... some of the translations were funny.. guess what Zikuth! Zikuth! Zikuth! translates into... Zikee! Zikee! Zikee! hehe... it was kinda weird watching the guys face as he sang though... but the piece was another sad one... BUT luckily the last piece was freaking incredible.. it was called Pictures at an exhibition by Ravel... the whole background to it was that Ravel's friend Mussorgsky who was a painter died... so in tribute Ravel took some of Mussorgsky's pictures and composed music to match the depicted scene... and man o man did it go well together... it was incredible listening to the scene... plus the recurring thing was known to us... which was nice hehe... all in all i HIGHLY recommend everyone to go to a classical music concert... i'm thinking about going to the hollywood bowl a few times (especially if John Williams is playing again) maybe you'd like to come along? :)... ok adios for now :).

6/7/02 3:01 AM... UN-FUBAR... man what a difference 12 hours can make... it's been like night & day differences... sat around, hair cut, albertsons, shared a frosty beverage, watched some futurama/family willy wonka homages, in n out, super dope orchestra concert, then just hanging around... ZERO work done... ahh man it's nice... will write about the concert tomorrow, but for now.. it's BEDTIME!!!!

6/6/02 3:01 PM... FUBAR.... first time i think i've genuinely failed a test... 67 questions, out of which i was sure on maybe 10? jeebus christ... i fucking hate that anatomy class... wow i got a good shot at getting an NP... only consolation 1st one done... less than 30 minutes to take it... they should really give out a cookie or a medal for that i think... newayz at least the hard part of the qtr is over... i think i got some lame ics lab to bullshit tonight.. but i'm not gonna think about that... i can't believe how much unfun the last few days was... i've also discovered i can no longer write stuff (err essay wise) at night... all this week i tried to do work on a final paper for a class... and ended up with zilch (haha not many people use that word nemore)... so i ahd to get my ass up at 5 to finishit (i think i'm gonna use that word more, definition - finishing up something shitty... which just so happens to be almost every piece of work i've turned in this quarter...) i really down on myself this qtr... just wanna keep yelling out FUCK THIS... and go to bed... in necase i think i'm ok now :)... i really really got tired of feeling not myself... it's really sucky when people actually notice and ask you if nethigns wrong... cuz it really izn't but i just was feeling out of it.... adn GOODDAMN this room is hot... we have the fan going like 24/7 but it's not helping :(... i htink i like fall & spring the best... its the most comfortable weather...... oh man.. so i just got basically a week and change left at irvine... couldn't even describe to ya what it feels like... i can't figure it out myself... it's weird though i think the majority of people are just dying to get out of here... i don't hink i'm one of htem.. .although i'm wayy over classes... hmm let's see other news... so last sunday i bought a 100 Gig hard drive... and now i think i'm down to 10 gig's left on it ahhahaha... that's the quickest i think neoen's gone through an upgrade hehe... but it's all (well almsot) quality... sooo many sifl & olly, family guy, simpsons, futurama & movies hee hee hee... never shall i be needing kone again ahahahah (just playing ken, i expect a full access ftp account next year :-p)... let's see other things on my mind... a close person of mine is still very sick... it's really not good i think... plus like the person should be the like the last person ever to have anything bad happen to em... from what they've done for me & everyone... on another related note... good to hear Rick Fury is feeling better... very good to hear... house pictures were last ngiht.. (again)... it really was the biggest waste of time... i think i'd rather jsut go out and get a disposable camera and take the pictures that i want... i'm all caught up with this new star wars book series hehe... now apparantly i gotta wait a month til robin buys the next one :p... tonight should be good, going to hear the uci orchestra play (GO LILLIAN!)... & tomorrow is house banquet, hopefully that will be good too... oh yes... time to rant about something... so if ne of you know me, (err i'm hoping u do... otherwise it'd really be kind of weird u reading all this and have no idea who i am...) i tend to finish tests pretty quick... last night was my molecular bio lab final... supposed to be a two our test, and i actually took like an hour 40 minutes lamost... it was really long test... so i turn in my shit (first woo hoo, remember i'd rather be first than right)... and then i hear that he fuckign gave eveyrone til lik 8.. a whole fucking extra hour... now i really wouldnt care too much if the class was on a striaht scale, cuz my answers werent' gonna get any more right with any more time, but the class is curved... and to me... when you learn sormthing... there's two parts to it... one is learnign it correctly.. and the other is being able to do it correctly in a certain amount of time... i mean in the real world it's not like you're gonna get awarded for doing things slowly... you're boss is never gonna say "Good job on that project, your taking 2 weeks longer than expected was beneficial to the company!"... sorry that was pretty lame, but u get the picture... SO newayz cuz this class is on a curve... i'm basically just trying to beat most of the people.. WHICH i think woulda done pretty damn easily, jsut cuz the test was so long and people weren't gonna get to all the problems... i mean that's why your'e always taught to go do all the ez problems first... that way you'll answer the most number correctly, instead of getting hung up on something right? but yeah i'm kinda miffed at that extra hour he gave everyone... if i knew that.. i coulda walked in an hour later... giving mysefl an hour more to cram for it you know? i dunno i just don't think it's right... sorry to ne that disagree with me... actually no.. i'm not sorry, it's the way real life is and people should learn to live by it... hmm walked past the cicerone park type thing... the protesting grad students about giving new grad students housing preference first... i actually agree with them... especially for the foreign students who are basically dirt poor at the moment, even with grants & stuff... how the hell woudl they pay for IAC rates? damn irvine prices... newayz i'm tired... i smell... i'm wearing the same clothes as yesterday... and i think i need a beer and a haircut... so until another time...adios. neone wanna hang out tonight?

6/4/02 12:32 PM... oh what a day so far... 6 hours + worth... granted i did just spend the last hour sleeping in class.. i'm really gonna miss being able to do that... i doubt it will be accepted where ever i am in the future :-(... maybe if i substitute teach i can sleep during those lame movies they make the students watch.... funniest part today was getting asked questions after class by the girl who came in late and was sittign next to me... like i can remember anything after sleeping hahah... i think i made up something about there being a final next week hehe... oh one other thing... SEVERE pain today... u know how u throw your keys in your pocket right? well apparantly these pants have gotta have the thinnnest pockets ever... i bumped my leg against the couch and man it felt like my keys got buried in my leg like shrapnel.. i can feel this weird bump there right now... now i can affect a limp and pretend i got shrapnel from my old war days back in 'nam... ok time to do some homework... oh yeah one other thing that rocks about uci... The computers in this lab are all named after Transformers characters... i'm workign on wheeljack righ tnow... smokescreen is to my right and swoop is to my left... hehe

6/4/02 1:56 AM... aww crap & frustration... thought i updated sunday night but apparatnly not... jist - offbeat & other stuff... and now i had just forgetten to save :-( sadness... i lost a good amount of stuff... which for some reaosn i can't remember how to put in correctly nemore... ummm Happy Birthday Christina Zabat Fran!!!!... i think i outdid myself with her gift lol... if u see it, u'll know what i'm talking about hehe... umm special thanks to my friend julie, who called me and got me to complain about how much work i had to do, which reminded me of work i HAD to do... whew... got one thing done... work blew for almost all 8 hours of beign there... but had a nice friendly dinner... unfortunately, i think i've really got to deal with stuff in my head... really is affecting my mood i think... it's kinda weird when people start asking u if you're allright, when u don't realize that thoughts start showing on your outside demeanor... but dinner was good, if just for the company, nonetheless... and miraculously cheap hehe... and rest of the night... well let's just say i my attempt at being productive failed miserably... but it did have good moments... i suppose time to sleep now... i'll be up at 5:30 if anyone else is up... perhaps some early mcdonalds breakfast break? i haven't had a egg mcmuffin in awhile... and on a side note... i think i really am getting old... sooo many people i'd like to make note of, and i hear all this great stuff from people all day... but i never remember it when i'm half asleep trying to update this profile... argh... i need one of those "note to self" tape recorders like Norm MacDonald... man he's a funny guy... sometimes i like the journey better than the destination...

6/1/02 11:22 PM... wow.. june already... crazyness... today i got an opportunity to listen to my dad and a old friend (his family is off visiting in different parts of the world, so my mom invited him over to feed him lol)... and man oh man... am i gonna turn out just to be like him lol... as i grow older i can agree with more and more of his points of view lol... but the evening was fun, even though i was the only person born post 1960 or so lol... ahh crap.. i had so epoints i was gonna make... but they all seem to have slipped my head... i attempted to study today after lunch, but ended up watching the cameroon & ireland game.. and fell asleep.. woke up with drool sticking my face to the carpet :-)... it was a delicious nap... oh yeah.. another incredibley delicious meal for dinner tonight... man my parents kick ass at fooding... was offered something to drink by my dad tonight, but i still can't get myself to accept that from him... i think for now it's one of the few barriers between son&dad that i wanna keep intact for some reason... that and well i think the first time you drink WITH someone, i'd like to be the one providing the alcohol... just seems right to me... so maybe one of these days i'll buy a 6 pack of rolling rock and offer him one lol... all right i guess i'll get back to attmpting to work... not looking forward to this week though, finals start for me this wednesday oh man... that's gonna blow... but first... another chicago word: Gurnee Mills - so the corduroy suit wearing shuttle driver took me to this mall... and i guess it's a really big deal there.. i guess it's the chicago area's equivalent to ontario mills... there were masses of people there even though it was a midthursday afternoon... weird huh? but i just people watched for awhile... and window shopped.... then i figured... oh man i might as well watch star wars.. so i went off to find which end of hte mall had the movie theater... hehe...


 

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